Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> I'm curious.
> 
> What do you want this application to create? code is law, and creates
> social structure. Do you want to encourage one-off, quicks edits by
> casual users? Swiki has a lot of features that support this that you
> should look at very carefully, for example, not requiring login.
> 
> Do you want trees as an overriding structure, or do you want a Swiki
> with better support for tree and permissions (which sounds like an
> interesting project to me - there're lots of places our swiki's could
> benefit from a more obvious tree structure)?

Please see my answer to Göran.

> Daniel
> 
> Chris Burkert <christian.burkert at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I plan to develop a kind of Swiki that is more what I want (nothing 
>>against swiki, but it's not really the thing I want :-) I think the best 
>>is with commanche.
>>
>>1) What would you say is the best starting point (It should be faster 
>>than swiki)?
>>- start from scratch
>>- change the existing swiki
>>- build with seaside
>>
>>2) What do you say about regular expressions. Is the plugin build in in 
>>the default VM or does the admin has to compile a new VM? Then I had to 
>>use Streams.
>>
>>Here's what I want.
>>- (Commanche) sessions
>>- pages sit in a tree (swiki has a graph structure)
>>- userlogin
>>- permissions (from user to admin)
>>- permissions are bound to a user/page combination and are
>>   inherited down the tree.
>>- Squeakcode in <squeak> ^'Hello World!' </squeak>
>>- only few special characters like
>>- ... other points
>>
>>about users
>>- User		can see additional infos
>>- Editor	can edit existing pages
>>- Author	can create new pages
>>- Root		can do everything
>>it should be easy to integrate new Userschemes
>>
>>Regards
>>            Chris Burkert
>>
>>PS: I built something similar in PHP (running on my Homepage) but PHP 
>>suckz! So the important question is 1)
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>>      http://www.chrisburkert.de/            chris at chrisburkert.de
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>>"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have
>>  C++ in mind." - Alan Kay --> http://www.whysmalltalk.com/

Regards
            Chris Burkert
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